Quote Originally Posted by Dizaster View Post
I havn't seen the fight yet, but it sounds really like B-hop was hard done by...

Mainly in the respect that he obviously lost because the 2 knockdowns really put him behind on points, but to come back from that and dominate almost the entire rest of the fight to be a draw in score on 2 people's cards, that guy has got to deserve the win more than someone who got lucky for 2 or 3 rounds at the start of the fight...

Even though when it goes the full 12 rounds, points are everything, if you ignore the scoring, I doesn't sound like anyone would argue with the fact Hopkins clearly won the fight......

But every boxer knows, do everything you possibly can to keep it out of the judges hands, because anything can happen from that point.. And it's all out of your control... Sounds like Hopkins tried to do that, and Pascal rested on his 2 knockdowns...
So from that perspective alone, I support the word "robbery"..

But in a close fight where 1 or 2 points max separate the fighters, it's kinda fair it going either way.... But definitely sounds like Hopkins deserved it more..
Yeah he did deserve it more, but it's getting carried away to call it a robbery imo. When you get putdown twice, on foreign soil, in your opponent's backyward it's always going to be an uphill struggle.

The scores of the judges, two draws and one win for Hopkins testify to how close he came to pulling it off.

I thought he won, he is without doubt the moral winner, but to call it a robbery is overstating.

A drawn fight that was a robbery was the first Funeka Guzman fight. Guzman dominated by Funeka and somehow scraped a draw. I thought the Ortiz Peterson drawn was more controversial also. Both Funeka and Ortiz more clearly won that Hopkins imo.

Take away the knockdowns however and Hopkins DID dominate virtually every round. But losing two 10-8 rounds is such a big obstacle to overcome overseas for any fighter.